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By Sanjeev Miglani NEW DELHI, Nov 29 (Reuters) - - India is sending a team to Iran to speed up work on a port that will provide access to resource-rich Central Asia and Afghanistan, officials said, moving quickly to take advantage of a thaw in Iran's relations with the West. The port of Chabahar in southeast Iran is central to India's efforts to circumvent Pakistan and open up a route to landlocked Afghanistan where it has developed close security ties and economic interests.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese consumer inflation accelerated to a five-year high and factory output rose for a second straight month in October, more evidence a recovery in the world's third-largest economy is on track to extend into 2014. In an encouraging sign that Japan may be escaping persistent deflation, a narrower measure of prices that excludes both food and energy rose at its fastest pace in 15 years. The availability of jobs edged up to the highest in nearly six years, another signal the economic recovery is broadening.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp has been found liable in an unintended acceleration lawsuit in the U.S., one of the first such cases to go to trial since the Japanese carmaker began recalling millions of vehicles in 2009 over acceleration issues. A jury in Oklahoma on Thursday awarded $3 million in compensatory damages to Jean Bookout, a driver injured in a 2007 crash, and the family of Barbara Schwarz, who was killed. The lawsuit claimed defects caused Bookout's 2005 Camry to accelerate unexpectedly, leading to the crash.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Global miner BHP Billiton upgraded its iron ore production target for fiscal 2014 while petroleum output hit a quarterly record, as it ramps up output to capture more of a slower-growing market for raw materials. Iron ore benefited from multi-billion-dollar expansion work underway in Australia that will lift fiscal 2014 output to 212 million tonnes, up from a previous target of 207 million, BHP said in its fiscal first-quarter production report. In petroleum, liquids output rose 16 percent, helped by a shift in focus at its U.S. shale holdings to focus more on oil production as U.S. gas prices sag. BHP has warned mining companies face slowing demand growth for raw materials from China and elsewhere requiring greater emphasis on economies of scale to keep costs down.

Shortly after dismissing Bill Carmody, Northwestern athletic director Jim Phillips gathered the players and asked what attributes they'd like from their next coach. "Someone who's really hungry and wants to win," Drew Crawford said. "And a coach who is a great communicator and wants to build strong relationships. "That's what we came up with as a team, and Coach Collins is all of that. " Kale Abrahamson was more direct. He didn't make a list. He said he wrote Phillips a letter with the simple message: Hire Chris Collins.

(Reuters) - A jury in California on Thursday found Toyota Motor Corp not liable in one of the first wrongful death lawsuits to go to trial in the United States over alleged defects that caused some vehicles to unexpectedly accelerate. The closely watched case was brought by the husband and son of Noriko Uno, a 66-year old woman killed in a 2009 car crash involving a 2006 Toyota Camry. It is among hundreds of similar lawsuits facing Toyota over acceleration issues, which prompted the automaker to recall millions of vehicles since 2009.

Braintree, a Chicago-based payment processor for smartphones and tablets, is being acquired by eBay's PayPal for about $800 million in cash, in a deal that highlights the growing appetite for purchases made on the go. The acquisition is expected to accelerate the expansion of the fast-growing Chicago company, founded just six years ago by a student at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. Braintree now serves companies in 40 countries and is the engine behind smartphone and tablet payments for customers like OpenTable, Airbnb, Living Social and Uber.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Nissan Motor Corp will recall around 908,900 vehicles globally including 764,800 in Japan due to a flaw in an accelerator sensor that could cause the engine to stall, the Japanese carmaker said on Thursday. No accidents or injuries have been reported to Nissan, spokesman Chris Keeffe said in an e-mail. The affected vehicles were produced in Japan between 2004 and 2013. In Japan, Nissan is recalling certain Serena, X-Trail, Lafesta and Fuga model vehicles. In the United States, Nissan is recalling 98,300 vehicles including certain Infiniti M models.